The Ocean Liner Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACCCCCCC CCDDEFCFE GHIIJKJKLMNNMO CCCCPN PNFQFQLDLDRRSEETTS CCCCUCUCCCCCThey went down to the sea in ships | A |
In ships they went down to the sea | B |
In boats hewn of oak tree strips | A |
In galleys with skin sewn sails | C |
In triremes caravels brigs | C |
Frail flimsily rolling rigs | C |
They went down where the huge wave rips | C |
Where the black storm lashes and hales | C |
They went down to the sea in ships | C |
To the sounding sorrowing sea | C |
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They go down to the sea O me | C |
What ships that outbrave the sea | C |
What ships that outrun the gale | D |
With a feather of steam for a sail | D |
And a whirling shaft for an oar | E |
Are the ships that my brothers build | F |
To carry me over the sea | C |
That my hand with treasures filled | F |
May knock at the morrow's door | E |
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Steel hulls impenetrable | G |
To the waves that tease and pull | H |
Bright engines that answer the beat | I |
Of their foam slippered dancing feet | I |
Hot fires that shudder and drive | J |
Close tended untiring sure | K |
Like queen bees deep in the hive | J |
Who labor and serve and endure | K |
All these are down below | L |
Far under the slippery water | M |
While the babe sleeps soft in his bed | N |
And the banquet table is spread | N |
And my neighbor's laughing daughter | M |
Trims her hair with a rose red bow | O |
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They went down to the sea in ships | C |
In ships they went down to the sea | C |
And the sea had a million lips | C |
And she laughed in her throat for glee | C |
And the floor of the sea was strewn | P |
With tempest trophies dread | N |
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And the deep sea currents croon | P |
As they wash through the bones of the dead | N |
But the ships that my brothers build | F |
Ah they mock at the storm's mad rage | Q |
And their burning hearts are thrilled | F |
When he throws them his battle gauge | Q |
On the sea foam they lean for a pillow | L |
They drive without paddle or sail | D |
Straight over the mountainous billow | L |
Straight on through the blustering gale | D |
Oh they shake out gay flags as they run | R |
Flags that flutter and gleam in the sun | R |
From the tip of their turrets above | S |
They send news of the storm to the shore | E |
And they hear from afar through the roar | E |
Down the cloud built aisles of the sky | T |
Some land bound lady's cry | T |
To her ocean wandering love | S |
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They go down to the sea in ships | C |
In ships they go down to the sea | C |
And my brothers the masterful free | C |
Fear no more the white foam of her lips | C |
They have won her she harks to their wooing | U |
The love of ten thousand years | C |
The suing the wild undoing | U |
The faith unto death the tears | C |
Oh their glory her song shall be | C |
Soft soft is the kiss of her lips | C |
They go down to the sea in ships | C |
In ships they go down to the sea | C |
Harriet Monroe
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